Family rooms for Hong Kong’s sick children planned near new hospital
Government says it is discussing plan for 66-room block near under-construction hospital, with charity
The strain affecting Hong Kong’s severely ill children and their families may soon be eased, with the government in talks with a charity over a new family residential block, near the city’s first children’s hospital.
The hospital is set to begin operation next year.
“We are positive with the plan ... discussion with the government has progressed well,” Iris Wong Ting-ting, executive director for the charity’s Hong Kong operations, which is dealing with the government, said.
The new facility is planned to house 66 family rooms over 15 or 16 floors. That is almost three times more rooms than the group’s first house in Hong Kong, near Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin.
